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AVEtec Energy Corporation
We produce perfectly green electrical energy from low temperature heat.
For more information visit: http://vortexengine.ca
Contact: Louis Michaud, P. Eng.President, AVEtec Energy Corporation1269 Andrew Ct.Sarnia, Ontario, N7V 4H4Email: [email protected]: (519)-542-4464
Atmospheric Vortex Engine
•Work is produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atmosphere because more work is produced by the expansion of a warm gas than is required to compress the same gas after it has been cooled.
•The Atmospheric Vortex Engine harnesses work of convection to produce electricity.
Generic AVE side view
Generic AVE plan view
Wet cooling tower AVE – Side view Capacity approximately 200 MW
Typical Vortex Engine Size• Circular wall diameter 50 to 200 m
• Circular wall height 30 to 80 m
• Vortex base diameter 20 to 100 m
• Vortex height 1 to 20 km
• Heat input 1000 MW. 20, 50 MW cooling cells
• Electrical output 200 MW. 20, 10 MW turbines• Specific work 1000 to 20000 J/kg
• Air flow 20 to 100 Mg/s• Water flow 40 to 200 Mg/s
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Manzanares Solar Chimney200 m high, 10 m diameterCollector 0.04 sq. km50 kW, 130 J/kg, 1 Mg/sEfficiency 0.2%Spain 1982 to 1989
EnviroMission Solar Chimney1 km high, 130 m diameterCollector 40 sq. km 200 MW, 800 J/kg, 300 Mg/sEfficiency 1.5%Australia, 2008+
Electricity from Atmospheric Convection
• The AVE replaces the physical chimney with centrifugal force in a vortex. • The AVE eliminates the solar collector by using waste heat or natural low temperature heat sources.
LMM Atmospheric Vortex Engine 2
Vortex Engine
Mechanical Draft: $15 million 40 m tall mechanical draft tower uses 1% of power produced to drive fans.(uses energy)
Natural Draft: doesn’t need fans but is 150 m tall and costs $60 million. (saves energy)
Vortex Cooling Tower: $15 million 40 m tall to function like a natural draft tower. (produces energy!)
Cooling Towers
Vortex in 1 meter diameter physical model
1 meter diameter physical model – side view
1 meter diameter physical model – top view
Proposed 4 m diameter prototypetransparent wall view
Petrolia
4 m prototypevortex
Video available at:http://vortexengine.ca/LM6/20080925155414-1.mpg
• Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE) and the University of Western Ontario (UWO) Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory (BLWTL) recently completed a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study of the AVE• Results for a 1 m diameter model simulation with a domain height of 2 m are shown below
CFD Results
Natural Vortices
Tornado
Waterspout
Hurricane
NASA
Fire whirls
Accidental
Deliberate
Source: Nate Smith
Courage
Source: Nate Smith
A Comparison of the Earth’s Stored Energy Resources
Crude Oil Reserves
Latent heat of water vapor in the bottom
kilometer of the atmosphere
Heat content of tropical ocean water
100 m layer, 3°C
1 kmheight
100 m depth
13 x 1021 J 130 x 1021 J7.3 x 1021 J
Replenishment times
109 years 10 days 100 days
It is all about upward heat flow.
•Energy is produced when water is lowered.
•Energy is produced when heat rises.
•The energy produced in a large hurricane is more than all the energy produced by humans in a whole year.
•A mid size tornado can produce as much energy asa large power plant.
•Atmospheric upward heat convection has an enormousenergy production potential.
•There is no need for a dedicated solar collector. The solar heat collector is the earth’s surface in itsunaltered state.